February 16, 2017

Comedian 6 Regular Cover

This comic is still hitting on nearly all cylinders. Well, save one. It does have a small - but glaring - error in the writing. A guy as smart as he claims to be would not have been absolutely snowed by the offer to travel across the nation and be involved in writing a screenplay - only in Los Angeles - for a book that sold about two copies. We haven't entirely been able to see or hear what the book is really about, but this one seems a little bit more than ridiculous that he would fall for that. Other than the glaring error, I really liked the comic. I liked the fact that both he and Chasm were both somewhat taken over by the darker demons within themselves, and him having to fight back the demons - and then grow from that was a great turn. I also liked the fact that he quickly flipped over the threshold quickly at the beginning of the comic - and that Chasm already had another set of demons to counter everything that he had setup within the space, too. A part of me wishes that he had executed the demons quickly - but regrouping with the sewer dwellers -and then starting over was a great way to start over. Then it hit that wall - he probably would not voluntarily take over the edge and lose it. The comic is establishing a large background of characters - some of whom are only background - and some play a far greater role, but the comic has remained relatively good through. It really surprised me how quickly the comic made it over the edge to the 'closure' of this story. I felt like Chasm was going to be the over-arching villain - and that Mercy would be on her madness through the end of this. It almost finished too quickly. I don't always love it when it hits the edge so quickly - but this one felt fulfilled. The end of the comic was a good romp. Liked the view outside of the building with the crawling within - but especially loved when he opened the building to all of the homeless people to eat. The removal of Mercy's finger REALLY shook me. That was the kind of thing that shocked the comic back into the real world. It absolutely seemed that this was the kind of thing that some gangster-esque person would do to a prisoner. But Chasm being controlled by the demons within himself - that was a cool part of this - and helped to explain why Chasm would want to send Glimmer across the country to try and get rid of him. The physical manifestations of doubt is a great concept.